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James O’Toole, author of more than a dozen leadership and management books, and coeditor of Good Business: Exercising Effective and Ethical Leadership, introduces an excerpt from The End of Leadership, by Barbara Kellerman, that takes the leadership industry to task.

Content: Article | Authors: Barbara Kellerman, James O’Toole | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

There may be no better training ground for being a good leader than the armed forces. This Ivey professor served in the Canadian Navy and the lessons he learned more than 20 years ago have guided his own life and his approach to teaching leadership. Readers will learn what those valuable lessons are in this article.

Content: Article | Author: Glenn Rowe | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

In most companies, we do not have (and I believe won’t have for the foreseeable future) the money to fund the work that we have to do. Leaders have two choices. One, they can tap the invisible resource of people who become self-motivated when invited to engage together. This approach has well-documented results in higher productivity, innovation, and motivation, but it requires a shift from … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Meg Wheatley | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management

I have a lot of sympathy for leaders who think that it’s their job to keep things in control, but when they use fear as a motivator, they shut down people’s brains and, as leaders, create the conditions for everyone to fail.

Content: Quotation | Author: Meg Wheatley | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Leaders can learn a lot from the late Apple CEO, but not all of it should be emulated.

Content: Article | Author: Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, People

The essence of leadership is to get results in a way that inspires trust. Although there are many behaviors that create trust, none offers greater leverage than listening. Yet, remarkably, it remains something many managers fail to do well.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Trust

The first job of any leader is to inspire trust. Trust is confidence born of two dimensions: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, motive, and intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, skills, results, and track record. Both dimensions are vital. …You might think a person is sincere, even honest, but you won’t trust that person fully if he or she doesn’t get results. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: LeadershipNow | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Trust

When we think of a typical leader, most of us picture a person who’s sociable and upbeat. But new research puts a wrinkle in that stereotype, revealing an unexpected sign of leadership potential: the tendency to feel guilty. “Guilt-prone people tend to carry a strong sense of responsibility to others, and that responsibility makes other people see them as leaders,” says Becky Schaumberg, a doctoral … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

What distinguishes the calm-yet-focused, balanced leader from the hyper-active, over-scheduled, less effective leader?

Superficially, it often appears to be a matter of underlying skills, with the calm, focused, consistently high-performing leader simply having more tools in their leadership toolkit than intermittently successful, high-stress leader. And although so-called “leadership skills” do have a place, on deeper inspection the root cause is much more foundational. With the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Les McKeown | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Leadership

What is charisma — and can leaders control it? Why charisma? Why now? Simply put, charisma matters because it can save companies. It can create products and profits, it can motivate and stimulate. And, yes, it can change people’s lives.

Content: Article | Author: Patricia Sellers | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Leadership

Most organizations and most boards of directors recognize the need for integration at the top but they also know that integration is elusive and often temporary. Research—still in its early stages—by the Accenture Institute for High Performance, has begun to identify the behaviors, the composition and the cognitive styles associated with global top management teams that achieve high performance.

The questions are tough: should top management … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Claudy Jules, Joshua B. Bellin, Nandani Lynton, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Character, not personality, defines a true business leader, and these authors describe the traits and values that make up the character of leadership.

Content: Article | Authors: Brian K. Cooper, James C. Sarros, Joseph C. Santora | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

Every great leader begins with a great dream. Ambitious visions not only require a capacity for meaningful change, but also provide the energy and inspiration to engage others. These tasks — articulating a dream and rallying others around it — are the essence of leadership. The study of leaders in every field tells us that leadership is the residue of ambition… Great leaders have an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James A. Champy | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Achievement, Ambition, Leadership, Success / Failure

Leading change is difficult. Therefore, much is written on the topic. This article is based on a study that took the unique approach of listening to stories from leaders in a variety of sizes and types of organizations and documenting their recurring, successful solutions to common problems found in change initiatives. Their strategies, or “patterns,” provide a resource for anyone who struggles with introducing a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Linda Rising PhD, Mary Lynn Manns PhD | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

In the end it is the quality and character, a leader’s understanding of how to be, not how to do, that determines the performance, the results.

Content: Quotation | Author: Frances Hesselbein | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Achievement, Leadership, Success / Failure

Body language is critical to your effectiveness in working with other people, says social psychology researcher Deborah Gruenfeld.

Content: Article | Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways.

Content: Article | Authors: Steven J. Kramer, Teresa M. Amabile | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

As a business culture, we’ve made the lure of executive leadership hard to resist—and the job of leadership virtually impossible to do. An Atlantic essay sums up the dilemma of the contemporary business leader this way: “The more CEOs work and the more responsibilities they take on, the more isolated they become. Their entourages shield them from workaday headaches. Their spot at the top cuts … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management | Company: Rite-Solutions

If you’re over a certain age, the term “hacking” probably has negative connotations. You may think of stealing credit card information, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and denial-of-service attacks. I suggest letting that go and replacing it with this definition: Hacking is messing around with a highly complex system until you find a simple way to make it do things it can’t do now. That definition, applied to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dave Logan | Source: CBS News | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

One of the most powerful words in the English language is why. When asked as an interrogatory, why has the power to change assumptions, preconceptions and mindsets. It has the power to initiate change as well as the power to affirm the right course. It is a word that should be used frequently but with great care. When used the proper way, it can be … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John Baldoni | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Thought, Trends / Analysis